Lettera da Salamanca

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.

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Based on a short story by Ibrahim al-Kawni that deals with the issues of mortality, the film adaptation is used to condemn those who planted landmines in Libyan territory and thus spread death over the landscape long after the end of the war.

A young girl’s moral compass and perspective on mortality are challenged when she tries to save a brutally wounded rabbit.

A couple happens upon an old box of pornographic material in a closet. The box contains an evil spirit that is released once opened, reaping havoc on the family.

Gabriel, an imaginative six-year-old, has developed a close relationship with the ants he's keeping in his ant farm. When one of them stops moving, he asks his mother questions about love, life and death for the first time. After listening closely to his mom’s distracted response, Gabriel's unique interpretation leads him to go to great lengths in caring for the soul of his ant, making sure it gets into heaven. Eager to witness the deceased ant's passage, Gabriel embarks on a self-appointed quest and is rewarded.

After undergoing the split of Meiosis, meiosisters Orchis and Semes awaken as sperm in the ethereal land of Test, where the annual Testy Festy welcomes them to what seems like heaven. Things take a turn when Seed, a strange sperm donning a condom mask, claims that their paradise is a lie and calls for the start of the Great Jac, a taboo event prophesied to lead either to the Promised Unknown or to death. A sperm civil war breaks out as rebels and loyalists fight over whether their world is truly heaven or merely the prelude to something far greater...

In this deeply moving VRChat short film, an entity from the 'in-between' observes the human experience from the periphery. As it watches individuals curate the moments of their lives—from the warmth of a loved one’s smile to the ache of a fading melody—a poignant dialogue unfolds about the weight of memory and the inevitability of the end. More than just a meditation on mortality, Memories is a visual and auditory journey that reframes the concept of passing as a final, gentle guidance. By turns haunting and hopeful, the film serves as a beautiful reminder to make memories with people, assuring us that when our time finally comes, our stories will be carried safely into the dusk. Featuring: Original narration exploring the intersection of existence and legacy. Atmospheric sound design by MuroLynxian. Cinematic direction by Simon Davison and Echo Canidae. Experience this immersive narrative reflection on what it means to leave a mark on the world.

Tragedy sends a young woman on a voyage through the wilderness of death and time.

An aging 80 year old drag queen forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they realize how to truly be themselves.

A son, recently discovering he has passed away, must bargain with an angel to ensure his father’s admittance to Heaven - not Hell.

An old sage with a troubled past attempts to extract the badness from within himself.

In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.

The intimate tale of a goddess who tries to win back the affection of her former lover who has moved on in life without her.

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.

A young man struggles with contemplating mortality a year after the passing of a loved one.

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.